 |
|
History
|
|
Since its foundation in 1985 Fraunhofer IIS has grown to be the largest institute within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. This timeline presents a chronology of significant events in the history of Fraunhofer IIS.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009
On June 15, 2009 building activities for Fraunhofer projects started in the Metropolitan Region at the location Fürth Atzenhof. Four facilities of the Fraunhofer IIS will conduct research at this site in the future. It started with the ground-breaking for a testing hall with a linear accelerator in which large components, such as aircraft carrier surfaces, rotor blades, entire vehicles or even containers can be tested non-destructively.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009
At the planned test plant »Versuchsanlage Am Vogelherd« in Ilmenau an antenna tower for digital radio is being built up by the Fraunhofer IIS. The building activities started with the ground break on June 12, 2009.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2008
On July 31, 2008, Fraunhofer IIS celebrated the inauguration of its second building section in Erlangen-Tennenlohe. Highlights of the new building are the sound laboratory and the fully equipped audio-video recording and postproduction studio aimed for the research specialised on audio and multimedia. The research focused on Digital Cinema obtained „a cinema of the future“, which is equipped with the sound field system IOSONO developed by the Fraunhofer IDMT.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2007
The year 2007 marks twenty years of successful audio coding at Fraunhofer IIS. Back in 1987 a breakthrough in audio coding activities was achieved with the introduction of the first real-time implementation of a predecessor of mp3. Fraunhofer IIS commemorates this milestone with a range of events including the release of videocasts. At the ceremony on 25 May, 2007 (f.l.): Dr. Jürgen Herre, Harald Popp, both members of mp3 developer team, state minister Dr. Günther Beckstein, Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, director Fraunhofer IDMT, Prof. Dieter Seitzer, former director of Fraunhofer IIS, Dr. Bernhard Grill, mp3 developer team, Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, director Fraunhofer IIS.
|
|
|
|
|
|
February 2007
Fraunhofer IIS increases its activities at the “Forschungsfabrik“ research laboratory in Nuremberg. The research focus of the 65 staff members is “Localization and Communication”. At the inauguration ceremony (f.l.): Hans Spitzner, state secretary, Dr. Albert Heuberger, deputy director Fraunhofer IIS, Prof. Dr. Klaus Meyer-Wegener, vice dean of the Erlangen faculty of engineering, Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, director Fraunhofer IIS.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 2005
Fraunhofer IIS celebrates its 20th anniversary together with high-ranking guests (f. l.): Prof. Karl-Dieter Grüske, rector Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Ministerialdirigent Klaus Jasper, Bavarian Ministry of Economics, Infrastructure, Transportation and Technology, Ministerialrat Manfred Dietrich, Federal Ministry of Culture and Research, Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, director Fraunhofer IIS, Gerd Lohwasser, mayor of Erlangen, Prof. Heiner Ryssel, director Fraunhofer IISB, Prof. Hans-Jörg Bullinger, president Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Günter Baumüller, vice president IHK Nürnberg.
|
|
|
|
|
|
January 2004
The working group on electronic media technology AEMT in Ilmenau has evolved to a independent Fraunhofer Institute Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT (electronic media technology) under the leadership of Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 2003
The first live broadcasting of DRM campus radio bit eXpress, a joint project of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Fraunhofer IIS. (from left): Ulrich Rüde, Prodekan of the technical faculty, Prof. Karl-Dieter Grüske, rector of FAU, Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, head of institute, Peter Senger, Deutsche Welle.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 2002 Bundling of former Fraunhofer IIS activities in Nuremberg, and moving into newly built research factory at Nordostpark (from left): Dr. Roland Fleck, economic consultant to the city of Nuremberg, Erwin Huber, Bavarian minister of state, Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, director of the institute, Prof. Klaus Feldmann, director of the chair of manufacturing automation and production systems at FAU, Dr. Bernd Kottmann, IVG Immobilien AG, and Dr. Ulrich Maly, mayor of Nuremberg.
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 2001
Visitation of Federal President Johannes Rau (sitting down) at Fraunhofer IIS on the occassion of the award of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (from left): Elvira Gerhäuser, director of press and public relations, Dr. Siegfried Balleis, mayor of Erlangen, Gerd Lohwasser, vice mayor of Erlangen, Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, director of the institute, Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg.
|
|
|
|
|
|
August 2000
Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg (on right) is appointed professor at technical university Ilmenau.
|
|
|
|
|
|
April 1999
Dr. Günter Elst is appointed honorary professor at Technical University Dresden ernannt. He is being congratulated by Elvira Gerhäuser, director of press and public relations.
|
|
|
|
|
|
November 1998
Fraunhofer IIS assumes a complex of buildings on Großer Kornberg in the Fichtelgebirge to be set up as a radio test point.
|
|
|
|
|
|
January 1995
Fraunhofer-Center for Applied Research on Traffic Logisitcs and Communication Technology AVK launched in Nuremberg, headed by Prof. Peter Klaus.
|
|
|
|
|
|
November 1993
Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser is called into Fraunhofer IIS' institutional administration.
|
|
|
|
|
|
July 1990
Foundation of Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (from left): Prof. Nikolaus Fiebiger, Prof. Gotthard Jasper, vice chancellor of University Erlangen-Nürnberg, August Lang, Bavarian minister of state for economic affairs and commerce, and Dr. Gustl Drechsler, IHK-Präsident (r.), all congratulate director Prof. Dieter Seitzer (2nd from right).
|
|
